Ideas and Inspiration

One of the things I’ve always loved about the Austin City Limits music festival is how clean the grounds are, despite the fact that sixty thousand people gather there, eating, drinking, smoking, and anything else your imagination can conjure up.  Throughout the festival the rolling green grounds remain relatively free of debris.  How can this be?  The designers of the festival are very intentional about how they handle garbage, designing a system that works on many different levels.  As an organizational/cultural systems kind of guy, these are right in my wheelhouse.  Here are a few of my favorite things.

 

The first and most basic design decision is the strategic placement of garbage and recycling receptacles.  They are not so cumbersome that you run into them at every turn.  In fact, when you don’t need them you hardly notice their existence.  When you do need one, it seems there is always a bin within 100 feet of wherever you are.  I suspect great thought has been put into the spa...